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(Don't) Use Your Words: Communicating Visually Through Presentations and Beyond

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:15:00 GMT

(Don’t) Use Your Words: Communicating Visually Through Presentations and Beyond
Start Date: 25-Mar-10 11:15 AM
End Time: 25-Mar-10 1:00 PM
Location: Maggiano's, Houston, TX 77056
Speaker: Katie Laird

Event Details:

[Back by popular demand. This presentation got great reviews at last September’s ESIG luncheon. Katie’s added new material to address working w/ graphics firms and within a corporate environment.]

In a business world where PowerPoint is the norm in nap-inducing meetings and many professionals have long since packed away their crayon boxes, the ability to communicate visually is more important than ever. Think all presentation slides are worthless and boring? Tired of being forced to make decisions based on verbose and confusing PowerPoint slides? This presentation is for you – re-capture your creativity and learn how to find the right way to say what you want to say – often without using a single word at all.

Join Katie Laird, a graphics-obsessed communications geek from Schipul – The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com), as she walks us through the do’s and don’ts of communicating visually. This presentation will be perfect for flexing your creative muscles and maintaining your sanity, whether you’re a frequent public speaker, a professional charged with creating the dreaded slide deck for company meetings or just someone who wants to be understood the first time around. Learn, also, how to work with a team – to ensure consistent messaging and that everyone on the team speaks with ONE voice. Plus tips for successful collaborations with design professionals.

Maggiano's

2019 Post Oak Blvd.

Houston, TX USA 77056

IABC Young Professionals Mixer

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT

IABC Young Professionals Mixer
Start Date: 30-Mar-10 5:30 PM
End Time: 30-Mar-10 7:30 PM
Location: Yelapa Playa Mexicana, Houston, TX 77098
Event Details:

Looking for more sources to build your communication skills and network? We're here to help -- tell us what you need! Bring a friend and your ideas.

Open invitation to all young professionals in communications, including writers, graphic designers, photographers and marketing professionals. Or, if you would like to just introduce yourself, please do!

We will provide appetizers. Drinks are cash bar, but Yelapa has some great happy hour specials!

Yelapa Playa Mexicana

2303 Richmond Ave.

Houston, TX USA 77098

All''s Fair in the Business World, or Is It?

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:30:00 GMT

All's Fair in the Business World, or Is It?
Start Date: 8-Apr-10 11:30 AM
End Time: 8-Apr-10 1:00 PM
Location: The Fabulous La Griglia, Houston, TX 77019
Speaker: Dave Steitz

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You do some writing for a design firm. The design firm’s client is very happy with the writing; less so with the design. The client contacts you directly and says he is going to pull a second project from the design firm but wants you to continue to do the writing. What do you say?

A friend who teaches a communication course at a college asks you to guest lecture when she is out of town on vacation. This person is paid to teach the class. Do you ask for a guest lecture fee?

Ethics and professional standards. We’d all like to think we’d do the right thing when faced with a difficult business decision. But sometimes, those decisions aren’t so black and white. Join ESIG at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, April 8, at La Griglia, as business coach and advisor, Dave Steitz, guides us through a discussion on professional ethics and standards.

The Fabulous La Griglia

2002 West Gray

Houston, TX 77019

Crisis Communications: Oil Spill Response Case Study Aramco Services Company This Is A Drill!

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Crisis Communications: Oil Spill Response Case Study Aramco Services Company – This Is A Drill!
Start Date: 22-Apr-10 11:15 AM
End Time: 22-Apr-10 1:00 PM
Location: Maggiano's, Houston, TX 77056
Speaker: Panel Presentation

Event Details:

Houston-based Aramco Services Company (ASC) is the U.S. subsidiary of the world's leading oil producing and exporting company, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). Each year, more than 100 ASC employees and contractors converge on a Gulf Coast community for several days to practice responding to a simulated oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A key component of this emergency response effort involves the company’s Public Affairs team who staff an on-site media/community response operation. Working closely with internal ASC experts, and representatives with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Texas General Land Office, Texas Parks and Wildlife, U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others, the Public Affairs team strives to keep the public updated on all aspects of a simulated oil spill response as the scenario unfolds.

Join ASC Corporate Communications Advisor Judi Ottmann, ASC Environmental Response Officer Rob Lefevers, and U.S. Coast Guard Commander Jim Elliott, for a peek inside ASC’s Joint Area Command Center during an oil spill response drill. You will learn how this team prepares and implements ASC’s Oil Spill Response Plan from a communications perspective, including:

Establishing a Joint Information Center of communications operations or on-site press room;
Implementing effective and consistent message distribution to key audiences, including internal audiences;
Training ASC Public Affairs employees in drill communications activities;
Electronically logging all “calls” from simulated members of the media and community into an onsite Intranet database, and responding consistently, accurately and in a timely manner to questions and inquiries;
Drafting all press releases, media alerts and other media materials, and shepherding approvals with key ASC executives and joint command partners;
Simulating distribution of all media materials to a media contact database, as well as on-site ASC responders;
Organizing and publicizing any press conferences and townhall meetings; and
Briefing and providing talking points for ASC spokespersons and other agency spokespersons before mock press conferences.

Co-moderating the panel discussion is Pam McConathy, principal with Foresight Communications Group, and Ben Wheatley, of Ben Wheatley Public Relations, both of whom have worked with ASC for more than 10 years on the company's annual Oil Response exercise.

Maggiano's

2019 Post Oak Blvd.

Houston, TX USA 77056

Test Student Pricing

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:30:00 GMT

Test Student Pricing
Start Date: 4-Apr-12 8:30 AM
End Time: 4-Apr-12 5:30 PM
Location: test

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